[Xenomai] [PATCH 1/1] posix skin: fix address passed to pse51_mutex_check_init in syscall

[Gilles Chanteperdrix]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 10:50:48PM +0200, Thierry Bultel wrote:
> Le 29/04/2016 21:40, Gilles Chanteperdrix a écrit :
> > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 04:39:50PM +0200, Thierry Bultel wrote:
> >> The address passed to pse51_mutex_check_init was the one of userland,
> >> not the kernel one.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Thierry Bultel <tbultel at free.fr>
> >> ---
> >>   ksrc/skins/posix/syscall.c | 2 +-
> >>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/ksrc/skins/posix/syscall.c b/ksrc/skins/posix/syscall.c
> >> index 87b95fa..31e2705 100644
> >> --- a/ksrc/skins/posix/syscall.c
> >> +++ b/ksrc/skins/posix/syscall.c
> >> @@ -1202,7 +1202,7 @@ static int __pthread_mutex_check_init(struct pt_regs *regs)
> >>   	} else
> >>   		attr = NULL;
> >>   
> >> -	return pse51_mutex_check_init(&umx->shadow_mutex, attr);
> >> +	return pse51_mutex_check_init(&mx.shadow_mutex, attr);
> >>   }
> > Ah, what a coincidence, Jan reported this issue a long time ago:
> > https://xenomai.org/pipermail/xenomai/2015-December/035656.html
> > and I have merged a patch for it just a few days ago in my local
> > branch (soon to be Xenomai 2.6.5).
> >
> As you probably read in my previous emails, I am currently achieving
> to port ipipe to 4.5.
> Whereas the existing version does not seem to make any problems
> with kernel 3.18.12, it does a kernel crash with 4.5.
> I did not investigate why this makes a difference.
> With the patch, the 'leaks' non regression test successfully passes.

Fine, but how is that relevant? The patch is already merged, and Jan
probably explained the reason for the crash.

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